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Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, assistant professor in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society, is a co-editor of American Energy Cinema, a new collection of essays focusing on how energy is portrayed by Hollywood. The goal of the collection is to create an enjoyable and accessible space for historians and scholars to examine how gas, oil, coal, nuclear power and the ongoing tensions around electrification are captured by popular culture.

Vidmar, Head of IP Litigation at Microsoft and CU Alumnus delivered the inaugural Moulakis Lecture on Responsible Engineering, "Technology is a very human activity".

Clarifai, an AI startup translating images and video into structured data, was committed to philanthropic practices such as donating software to socially beneficial causes. This was the Clarifai that Liz O’Sullivan was familiar with when she joined the team in 2017. 12 Several months later, O’Sullivan found herself in a...

When I was growing up, I was inexplicably fascinated with my parent’s perspective on the world during their own childhood. In 2012, I was in fifth grade, and had a good part of my summer ruined because I read a National Geographic article about the impact climate change would have...

Far before I ever stepped foot into a CU engineering classroom, I swore off the idea of ever working for an oil company. I’ve always been a staunch environmentalist and from that perspective, fewer industries can be blamed for the earth’s environmental collapse than oil companies. Fast forward to me...

When we think of the devastating impact of climate change, our first thoughts are probably about melting ice caps, rising ocean water, and ecological collapse. However, we often miss the human element. One of those impacts will be changing human migration patterns. Climate change will cause more people to leave...

Throughout my college career, I have had the opportunity to interact with many people - students, professors, industry professionals, etc. - who are all passionate and ready to tackle the climate change challenge. All of these people are striving to develop technologies and systems that can be used to mitigate...

As a Herbst Fellow, Hermann Facundo Klein-Hessling Barrientos writes about the often-misrepresented history of eugenics in the United States and its intersections with race and innovative medical research today.

Join the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society on May 5 as they celebrate the career of Teaching Professor Leland Giovannelli. Please drop by to congratulate Leland for a brilliant career both in and beyond the classroom and thank her for her contributions to the college.

Teaching Assistant Professor Andrea Kowalchuk of the Herbst Program will lead a panel of academics discussing this topic on April 28 at 5:30 p.m. MT.